For the umpteenth time in his career, Jeff Daniels is having a moment:

1.) Chelsea’s most famous actor-musician-playwright-all-around good guy has a plum role in “The Martian” (out Friday) as a NASA chief who must ponder whether to attempt to save an astronaut (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars. Did we mention it’s getting out-of-this-world reviews?

3.) He was a nominee at last week’s Emmys yet again for his performance as Will McAvoy of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” the series from Aaron Sorkin (who also wrote "Steve Jobs") that ended its run with a fiery story line about the battle between journalistic standards and cable-news ratings metrics. Fans still need McAvoy, a sentiment expressed in tweets calling for the character to moderate a GOP presidential debate. “I might put the suit on for that, if Aaron was writing it,” Daniels told the Los Angeles Daily News recently. “Can you imagine McAvoy asking Trump, ‘Let’s talk about the phrase "fat pig" ’? ”